Quotes About Feeling

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

Explanations can't explain love--only deep perception can do that.

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

Follow reason but don't ignore that gut feeling. We create reasons with our limited knowledge and experience, but gut feelings often come from universal knowledge.

You have to think before you can feel. You have to conceive before you can perceive.

I'm not a writer, I just express in words!

Nothing is true, nothing is real except love and our perception of love.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.